Show prepare stock now for coming winter inspection of herds and barns will repay time spent with the approach of winter farm eru era should maie inu se sure that the barns barna in which their stock are to pass the cold months are clean and tree free from possible infectious diseases or parasites most progressive stockmen stoc kmen wasl their stables at least once a year but frequent dustings hustings du stings with an old broom are needed to keep beep the cobwebs and dust down before the cattle cattie leave the pastures for the season it Is good practice to inspect the whole herd and particularly the dry stock which may have been on some distant pasturage for possible skin disease or parasites troubles such us as warts eczema or wounds are easily looked after but ringworm scab or mange lice or warbles are more dangerous and each needs special treatment it la Is often for the average farmer to recognize the symptoms of an attack of the first two skin diseases mentioned or to distinguish between them ringworm Is doubly dangerous because humans may contract it through handling or from cur clur an brushes A simple deih method of finding whether scabs or skin rashes are caused by mange mites or Ing worm la Is to scrape some of the scabs onto a piece of black paper on worming warming this over a flame the mites can he seen to move which Is not the case with creth ringworm tincture of iodine ap plied dally following washing with soap boap and water will cure the tatter latter ant scabies or manse mange need ft be dipped in or sprayed with special solution such as crude petrol petroleum etim or equal parts of kerosene and cottonseed oil which mixture Is also recommended for lice no animal can give its bet best be t milk production or put on flesh when feeding such bucl parasites |